By Rhian Edwards The Birds of Rhiannon Before I was mortal, I was haloed in feathers, my trinity of familiars; whose birdsong was legend, serenading the dead from their dreams, lullabying the living to torpor. For the sake of this world and him, I swallowed my guardians, let them nest in my belly and […]

Reviewed by Dylan Moore Half a decade in the writing, Gwalia Patagonia has been a labour of love for self-confessed ‘professional Welshman’ Jon Gower. For such a small colony (just 162 people originally set out on the old tea clipper Mimosa), in such an obscure end of the world – ‘grey – tough and stunted […]

Thursday, October 22nd, 7pm, Free! Waterloo Tea House, Wyndham Arcade, Cardiff, CF10 1FH A special Patagonian-themed event to celebrate our most recent issue ‘Wales, Patagonia and the cultures of the imagination’. Chilean poet, performer and artist Luna Montenegro will be in Cardiff especially to perform her poems haunted by the dead languages and lost cultures of Patagonia. […]

For his essay on Poet-Novelists in our Summer 2015 issue, Dai George interviewed Christopher Meredith at his home in the Black Mountains. We’re delighted to publish the edited transcript of the conversation online. Christopher Meredith’s first novel Shifts won the Arts Council of Wales Fiction prize and was recently shortlisted for the title of Greatest Welsh Novel […]

Wales, Patagonia and the cultures of the imagination This issue arises from a fascination with a two-way gaze: the ways in which Patagonia imagines Wales and in turn how Wales imagines Patagonia. At its extremes, one place may be imagined as ‘the end of the earth’, as an empty wild west ripe for a white saviour-style […]

Io flat cow skull-bone trying to feel through coarse fur his knuckles against her brow, the stroke-soft soothe-speak; flat cow skull-bone gathering all thought, all nerve to accurately feel, re-feel, focus, the small girl memory of his musk man-smell when brush of his fingers on her hot forehead would soothe her; flat cow skull-bone housing […]